[CPEO-MEF] Spring Valley (DC) munition

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

SPRING VALLEY

Army Suspends Search for Buried Munitions

Steve Vogel
Washington Post
December 11, 2007

The Army Corps of Engineers has halted its excavation for World War I
chemical weapons in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest
Washington while it assesses whether its safety procedures are adequate
for the munitions that are being uncovered, officials said yesterday.

The review was prompted by preliminary analysis of an artillery round
discovered about three weeks ago in a pit in the 4800 block of Glenbrook
Road. In October, the Corps launched its latest excavation, searching
for chemical weapons buried by the Army when it closed a testing
facility at American University at the end of World War I.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121001690.html

For the Army Corps of Engineers statement, see
http://www.nab.usace.army.mil/projects/WashingtonDC/springvalley/NewsRelease/sv07-30.pdf


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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